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« Digital compression technologies are used to encode files into fewer bits (or other information-bearing units), to travel faster and further. These compressions reorganize the relations inside and between the data of for instance sounds and images by means of scaling, reordering, and decomposing. Compressions also reorganize the context, time and space of information; basic values on which communication used to depend. »

Extract from Compression art : visualising the obscured, Rosa Menkman.